Hacienda Buenos Aires raid

The Hacienda Buenos Aires raid occurred on 6 August 1995 when the Colombian National Police, led by General Rosso Jose Serrano and assisted by the American DEA, captured Cali Cartel godfather Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela after a shootout at the Hacienda Buenos Aires hotel in the expensive Normandia neighborhood of Cali, Colombia. Several sicarios and police were killed, but Rodriguez was successfully apprehended.

The original plan was for Rodriguez's head of security and DEA double agent Jorge Salcedo to lure him out of the hotel in a convoy, upon which the police would swoop in and capture him. However, Rodriguez was persuaded to stay in the hotel by his son David Rodriguez, who discovered Salcedo's treason. Salcedo was gagged and suffocated with a plastic bag, but the police arrived as he was being tortured. The national police engaged in a shootout with the sicarios both inside and outside of the hotel, and Agent Chris Feistl managed to rescue Salcedo. Rodriguez had been forced to leave Salcedo behind by his men, who wanted him to escape. He attempted to flee in a car, but Serrano's police truck smashed into Rodriguez's vehicle, incapacitating it. Rodriguez was then apprehended by the police, and he joined his brother Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela in prison. The raid convinced Helmer Herrera to surrender, while Jose Santacruz Londono was killed in a police shootout.